ABSTRACT
Academic work done on Information Technology and democracy shows that popular use of the Internet has reduced considerably the entry costs of new political bodies. The representatives of the anti-Brexit groups have created compact organisations, with coherent, stable structures, nimble enough to react speedily to the developments in the Brexit process. Digital fieldwork comes with its own opportunities and problems. Postill contends it needs a special toolkit of concepts, in his case inspired by both the Manchester School and Bourdieu’s theory of practice. Cyber parties’ are a potential political reality. For instance, at the Perigueux meeting, the Chair of Liberal Democrats in France underlined that it was an entirely Internet organisation, with all its meetings conducted online. Fredrik Barth wished to shift the study of identity from a timeless structural-functionalist stance to a more transactional, historically grounded one.
